#562 Germany...Thanks Rainer!

The 55c stamp was issued in 2007 commemorating 100th birthday of Paul Klinger,who was a German actor and the German voice of David Niven and Cary Grant.

#537 Germany...Thanks Igor!

#493 Germany...Thanks Hans!

#405 Germany...Thanks Jurgen!

The 45c and 55c stamps,issued in 2010,are designed by Udo Lindenberg,who is a German rock musician,themed on his songs "SS Andrea Doria" and "Special Train to Pankow".

Udo Lindenberg, born 1946 in Westphalia, Gronau, founded his first band in 1959. 1973 Lindenberg writes German rock music texts, for which there are few role models in this period. He dreams of an open inter-German border.In October 1983, the West German rock star was surprisingly permitted to perform in concert at the Palast der Republik in East Germany. At the concert, Lindenberg sang one of his best-known songs "Special Train to Pankow", which satirized East German leader Erich Honecker, and which he had been asked not to play. The East German government immediately revoked his permission to complete his scheduled East German concert tour, after he had spent months begging them for permission to perform there.

Udo Lindenberg shows in his musical and graphic work always that he is a deeply political person. In his overall artistic work he has been always for freedom, against right-wing violence, for humanity - always with a wink, irony and personal commitment. His provocations, which sometimes come to the limits, aim always for change for the benefit of the people.

#324 Germany...Thanks Brigitte!

#199 Germany...Thanks Gerd!

The two stamps on the left were issued to celebrate the Winter Olympics Games and Winter Paralympics in 2010.

The 55c stamp on the right were issued in 2010 depicting a German board game (but not a German-style board game)Mensch ärgere dich nicht,by Joseph Friedrich Schmidt (1907/1908).

The game was issued in 1914 and sold about 60 million copies. It is a Cross and Circle game with the circle is collapsed onto the cross, similar to the Indian game Pachisi, the American game Parcheesi, and the English game Ludo. There is a computer adaptation.

The name of the game means "Do not get angry" (literally Do not get angry, man or Do not get angry, buddy). The name derives from the fact that a peg is sent back to the B field when another peg lands on it, similarly to the game Sorry!

You could learn the rules here.

#174 Germany...Thanks Peter!

The 55c stamp on the right was issued in 2009 commemorating 2000 years of Varus battle,which is also called The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or Varian disaster by Roman historians.

The battle took place in A.D. 9 when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions, along with their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.

The battle established the Rhine as the boundary of the Roman Empire for the next four hundred years, until the decline of the Roman influence in the West. Despite numerous successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army over the Rhine, the Romans made no further concerted attempts to conquer and hold Germania beyond the river.

#125 Germany...Thanks Gerd!

The 45c stamp was issued in 2010 to celebrate 200 years of Natural History Museum in Berlin.

This is the largest museum of natural history in Germany, and was established in 1810. Its collections contain objects from three major fields, paleontology, mineralogy, and zoology. It is most famous for two spectacular exhibits: the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

The 170c stamp was issued in 2009 commemorating 175th birthday of Gottlieb Daimler.

Gottlieb Daimler (1834 – 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf , Württemberg. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the first high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile.

Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. They designed in 1885 a precursor of the modern petrol engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, considered the first motorcycle and, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat. They are renowned as the designers of this Grandfather Clock engine.

Later, in 1890, they founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG). They sold their first automobile in 1892. Daimler fell ill taking a break from the company and upon his return experienced difficulty with the other stock holders that led to his resignation in 1893 that was reversed in 1894. Soon Maybach resigned also and he returned at the same time as Daimler. In 1900 Daimler died and Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907. In 1924, the DMG management signed a long term co-operation agreement with Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., and in 1926 the two companies merged to become Daimler-Benz AG, which is now part of Daimler AG.

#045 Germany...Thanks Gabriela

The 2 stamps on this great-looking winter cover are from German 2010 For the Welfare set issued on Jan.08,2010. The stamps are aromatic scratch and sniff.

The 45+20c stamp illustrates an apple and the 145+55c stamp shows a huckleberry.